Geoffrey Raisman
Professor Geoffrey (Geoff) Raisman FRS (born 28 June 1939) is a British neuroscientist.[1]
Personal life
He was born in Leeds and now resides in London. His father was a Jewish man who was originally from Lithuania. Raisman is not religious.[2] He attended Roundhay Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford.[3]
Career
He is chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology.[4][5] In 2014, his team claimed to have regrown nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.[6]
External links
- http://www.nichollsfoundationhullander.org/professor-geoffrey-raisman/
- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/one-small-step-annals-of-medicine-d-t-max
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- ↑ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/meet-working-class-lad-leeds-who-4479771#rlabs=3
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29645760
- ↑ http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/124493/british-jewish-doctor-helps-paralysed-man-walk-again
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/21/paralysed-darek-fidyka-pioneering-surgery
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